In Barack Obama Democrats have put forth a man of strong religious faith who is comfortable connecting his spiritual life to his public role as a policymaker.

'Let God be true but every man a liar' is the language of true faith.

My father who died a few years ago was a good simple very honest man. His faith and affection for his family was just unassailable without question.

Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.

But every act in consequence of our faith strengthens faith.

The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace no less than war requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.

True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.

For me and I suspect for lots of other people too bad things actually sometimes make you think more about faith and the fact that you're not facing these things on your own.

My faith is very private to me. It plays an important part in my life but I do not try and throw my beliefs at others. I have tremendous respect for all faiths and beliefs but have a deep concern that religion and faith are currently a long way apart from each other.

All is amiss. Love is dying faith's defying heart's denying.

Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you have an equal right to justice - that is the essence. And if it's not the essence then we've been sold a pack of lies. The essence is everyone deserves a shot - the content of character not the color of skin.

The Bible is our rule of faith and doctrine.

You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.

All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty. That they retain the capacity for self-government. That addressed as free-born autonomous men and women of God-given dignity they will rise yet again to drive back a mortal enemy.

The Christian faith can never be separated from the soil of sacred events from the choice made by God who wanted to speak to us to become man to die and rise again in a particular place and at a particular time.

Faith is the ticket to the feast not the feast.

A whole lot of us believers of all different religions are ready to turn back the tide of madness by walking together in both the dark and the light - in other words through life - registering voters as we go and keeping the faith.

Faith like a jackal feeds among the tombs and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.

Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life its strength and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.

We may not only find faith in God in our sorrow. We may also become faithful to Him in times of calm.

I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.

The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

The important things are children honesty integrity and faith.

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.